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Patented Apr. 8, 1930 PATENT OFFICE EMIL CHRISTENSEN, OF ORTLAND, OREGQN Application filed October 2, 1928. Serial No. 309,?27.

My invention relates to sockets in general, and particularly to such sockets as are adapted to hold the stafls of flags and other devices in temporary positions of display. My invention is particularly designed for the positioning of flags and other decorations upon the bumpers of automohles. The object of my I invention is to provide a simple and cheap device that is easily placed in position or removed therefrom, and that when in position for use will firmly clamp the stafl of the flag or decoration as well as the automobile tender or other support. I accomplish this object by means of the Construction illutrated in the 5 accompanying drawing, which is a part of this application for Letters Patent, like characters of reference indicating like parts throughout the several views thereof, and in which:

Fig.'1 is a front elevation of a portion of an automobile bumper with my device in position thereupon.

Fig. 2 is a plan view 'of the same.

Fig. 3 is an end elevation of the same.

In general my device consists of a socket member With two yieldable arms extending therefrom, the relation of the arms and the socket being such that when said arms are deflected from their initial position to grasp the support upon which the device is to be mountecl the socket will ontract upon the flag staff to hold the same securely in position.

As a preferred form of Construction I illustrate in the drawing a device made of wire. The wire is first doubled upon itself, thus torming a loop 4. The two ends of the wire are then wound in a spiral or double threaded sockct 5 into which the flag staff is to be in serted before the device is placed in position upon the support.

A pair of oppositely projecting arms 6 are led off from the bottom of the ,socket upon dametrcally opposite sides thereof and tangential thereto, as shown in Fig. 2. Said arms are given a downwardly inclination, and terminated in hooked ends 7 adapted to engage the lower edge of the support 8. The arms are thus positioned upon opposite sides of the support.

To use my device the flag staff is first insert ed into the socket, and the device is placed upon the support, as shown in Fig. 1. The arms (3 are thus positioned upon opposite sides of the support With the hooks 7 some distance above the lower edge of the support. The yieldable arms 6 are then Sprung downward until the lower edge ot the support is engaged by said hooked ends 7 as shown in Fig. 1. The act of bending down the arms 6 contracts the lower coils of the socket 5, as shown in Fig. 1 by dotted lines, the result being that the socket tightly grasps the flag stafl and thus secures the same firmly in place.

My device may be made of any materials and constructed of any size deened convenient and suitable for a device of this character, and while I have illustrated and described a form of Construction found desirable in materialzing my invention, I wish to include in this application -all mechanical` equivalents and substitutes that may fairly be considered to come within the scope and purview of my invention as defined in the appended claim.

Having disclosed my invention so that others may be enabled to construct and to use the same, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

In a socket device for holding decorations:

a wire doubled upon itself to form a loop and then coled into a duble threaded helix with said loop at the upper end thereof; oppositely e disposed wire arms leading, from each of said helical threads at the bottom of said helix; and hooks formed at the extremties of said arms.

In witness whereof I claim the foregoing as my own, I hereunto aflix my signature at Portland, county of Multnomah, State of Oregon, this 25th day of Sept., 1928.

EMIL CHRISTENSEN. 

